As our property taxes are collected, I note the pertinent reality that about $1,400,000 (25 per cent) of the projected $5,445,950 tax revenue will be forwarded directly to the Alberta Board of Education.
The Town of Didsbury routinely provides this channel of funding from the taxpayers to the province, and back to our local school districts, just like every other municipality.
Parental concerns are rising about appropriate quality of our educational system. Individual and social confusion are a constant topic of concern across the full spectrum of adolescent development and learning.
My own grandchildren have noted publicly that they feel bullied by their own teachers to conform to prescribed ideologies that interfere with their freedom to learn and to interact with their peers as they seek to grow up without undue duress.
In general, it is noted that students' performance is significantly lower now than in the past. Much can be said about that. The net result is a declining public school enrolment due to the increase of alternative schooling in search of more productive methods.
Given that our council is expected to represent the interests of our community, how do you intend to fulfill your fiduciary responsibilities for assuring that the integrity of our money, handled by the Town of Didsbury, is being spent for the beneficial and wholesome good of our community?
Fred Van Vliet,
Didsbury
